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TIL before Pixar made feature films, they made commercials for LifeSavers candy, Trident gum, and Pillsbury rolls.

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eKpJ TIL The real Mark Zuckerberg had never heard of an Appletini before he watched ‘The Social Network’. After he tried one, he liked it so much he made the Appletini Facebook’s official drink.
wKwW TIL that Violet Jessop, who survived the sinking of the Titanic, also survived the sinking of it’s sister ship, the Britanic, and a collision on it’s third sister ship, the Olympic.
KXkE TIL in the late 19th Century, a woman named Nellie Bly became an investigative journalist, had herself committed to expose poor conditions at mental institutions, traveled the world in under 80 days, married a millionaire, and became an industrialist.
epal5 TIL the richest man in the world in the 19th century was a merchant in Guangzhou, China
OoyN6 TIL The ampersand (&) was the 27th letter of the alphabet as a ligature of the letters 'e' and 't' to form the Latin word 'et' meaning 'and'. So the alphabet would go X,Y,Z and And. So to distinguish it from the rest, children started to say 'and per say and' which later evolved into 'ampersand'.